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650 VDO Sceptrons Martin Helps Electrify The Weeknd’s World Tour
Lighting Designer Sooner Routhier selects VDO Sceptron 10 LED video fixtures to create an innovative lighting design that blends video projection with a futuristic and highly customized outline. In just a few short years, The Weeknd has become one of the most dominating artists in pop music.
WI in Wonderland with Take That
WIcreations has supplied staging, elevators and extensive automation elements to the highly acclaimed Take That ‘Wonderland’ tour which kicked off at the Genting Arena, Birmingham, UK.
Christian Leonard joins ARRI
Christian Léonard will be supporting ARRI’s EMEA activities in the broadcast and theatrical lighting market with a special focus on France. For this important role within the ARRI Business Unit Lighting.
Nexo initiates STM Partners Network
With more than 100 rental houses worldwide now offering the STM Series modular line array, NEXO is creating a special Partner Network for customers of its flagship sound reinforcement products. Since 2014, the STM Series of high-performance configurable line array modules has achieved global acceptance.
Allen & Heath puts sound at the heart of venues
Allen & Heath has signalled an increased focus on installed sound by deepening the integration of its dLive digital mixing systems into multi-purpose venues. A raft of new releases, control options and expanders adds to the dLive ecosystem to create a distributed, integrated, scalable and accessible solution, handling every aspect of a venue’s audio world from simple boardroom tasks to a full scale live show.
Elation Lighting Success on 2017 Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv
The Eurovision Song Contest is a unique experience in the world of entertainment made all the more special by use of some of the largest lighting and video systems you’ll find on any show. Elation Professional was proud to have been part of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv with over 800 lighting products used as audience and stage lighting by Lighting Designer Jerry Appelt and Eurovision Song Contest Head of Production Ola Melzig.
Powersoft M-Force Enters Cinema Sector
Described as “the most advanced cinema subwoofer in the world”, with a frequency range extending from 18Hz to 120Hz and SPL peaking at 145dB, Mag Audio’s new Mag Thor has set out to redefine the cinema experience, by reproducing soundtrack low frequencies well beyond capabilities of conventional subwoofers.
Martin Delivers an Electrifying Display for Metallica’s 2017 “WorldWired” Tour with Rob Koenig
Lighting Director Rob Koenig selects MAC Axiom Hybrid fixtures and Atomic 3000 LED strobes to create innovative and intense visuals for the legendary band’s massive world tour.
Kendrick Lamar at Coachella on new Sennheiser Digital 6000
The Coachella Music and Arts Festival has become the most talked-about music festival of the year in recent times, and this year headliner Kendrick Lamar delivered an unforgettable performance to close out the dual-weekend extravaganza. Lamar and his team turned to a combination of Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 and new Digital 6000 wireless systems to transmit every syllable of his energetic and powerful set with clarity and unwavering reliability.
Eurovision trusts again in MA control: 88,466 total parameters count
MA Lighting was chosen to provide a networked control solution for 1,816 lighting and LED ‘pixel’ fixtures plus playback video elements. An impressive total of 12 x grandMA2 consoles were installed into the venue: 8 x grandMA2 full-size, 4 x grandMA2 light and 1 x dot2 core.
MINUIT UNE is hiring a travelling Technical Sales Representative
Created in 2013 by three physics engineers and entrepreneurs, Minuit Une is a French start-up company which designs, develops and distributes a new kind of scenographic lighting. Following the success of its first two products the M-Carré and the M-Pyramide, Minuit Une is now hiring new members to to become a worldwide important scenographic lighting manufacturer.
Michael Howe Runs Mastodon “Emperor of Sand” Tour With ChamSys MQ500 Stadium
The complex Mastodon experience is on full display in the quartet’s 30-city North American “Emperor of Sand” tour, not just in the epochal music, but also in the highly evocative light and video show that Michael Howe created with the new ChamSys MQ500 Stadium and HD media server.
New Meyer Sound VLFC Unleashes Explosive Force on Metallica Tour
Metallica's summer-long WorldWired Tour is currently rolling in high gear through the largest stadiums and festival sites in North America, galvanizing the iconic band's multi-generational fan base by delivering a searing, eye-popping and — literally — gut-slamming experience of adrenaline-fueled guitar rock.
Adamson Expands Install-Focused IS-SERIES
Adamson Systems Engineering is launching the IS10 and IS119 installation-tailored loudspeakers at InfoComm 2017, the larger siblings to the highly-acclaimed IS7 and IS118 cabinets introduced earlier this year.
B&K Braun, INNLED official distributor in Germany
Since 6th of May 2017, B&K Braun has taken on the distribution of INNLED products in Germany. Founded in 1977 by Hartmut Braun, this international distributor has become a reference in the field of stage and event equipment.